The Adelaide Crows Football Club is giving 500 free tickets to children and young people in care for its home AFL games this season as part of the Crows Care Program, which aims to bring children and their carers to live football games.
For each of the club’s 11 home games, 25 tickets will be given to the Department for Child Protection and another 25 to non-government care providers. The first home game will be on Sunday March 16th against St Kilda.
Debbie, a carer who took part in the program, took four children to a Crows game against North Melbourne. She said the children loved the match, especially when the Crows won by 11 goals.
“They had a ball. It was the first time they’d been to a football match. I asked them halfway through if they wanted to leave and they all said “we want to stay until the end’,” Debbie said.
The children also enjoyed the chance to take a train ride to the Adelaide Oval, which made the experience even more special. “We’d go again whether we had free tickets or not now,” Debbie said.
The State Government has invested over $580 million into child protection and family support programs, which help create more opportunities for children in care to participate in activities that benefit their well-being.
This program is part of a larger effort between DCP, the Office for Recreation, Sport and Racing, and sporting organisations to get children in care involved in sports, which can help with their emotional and physical healing.
The Adelaide Crows Foundation’s involvement in this program has been recognised with a nomination for the 2024 SA Child Protection Awards in the Community Service Award category.
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